Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the hospitality yachts that gridlocked the harbor to the G.O.P. gala at the Embarcadero Park, the single most profitable fund raiser Republicans have ever had at a convention. (At that one the G.O.P. took in $6.5 million from assorted contributors, $2 million more than at 1992's largest checkbook jamboree.) One of the busiest hosts was Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. On Wednesday he introduced Jack Kemp to 3,500 big donors at the outdoor gala, an honor he got for raising $2 million. After shaking Van Dongen's hand, the vice-presidential...
...ranging ursid. The Endangered Species Act, perhaps, and how the Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily erased about 4,000 species from the protected list last February? "Uh, I know I forgot to send in my Sierra Club dues, but, believe me, fella, the minute I get back to my checkbook...
...with rapt wonder that I read about Jackie O.'s auction. I gobbled up all the details, envying every participant in the event. Would that my checkbook had been able to support my craving to be there in person and spend the bucks for those fabulous fake pearls. There are those who call the event a Camelot "feeding frenzy," but I bet a good many of us, given half a chance, would have loved to purchase a piece of the legend. CHRIS FINKLEIN Warrenton, Oregon...
...free market run its course and not have governments compete against each other this way?'" says North Carolina attorney general Michael Easley. "But that's just not an option when you have 49 other states plus foreign countries using incentives." In other words, the Governor will be keeping his checkbook handy...
...welfare family cannot afford another child, then the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance is willing to work with the Human Life Alliance in paying for all costs, including hospital stays (even if the baby is born with a serious medical condition), childcare, clothing, diapers, formula and college costs. Its checkbook will be open. I admire its generosity...